By Charles Barnard One day a father witnessed his young son throw a temper tantrum because he didn’t get his way. The father stopped what he was doing and went into the house and came back out with a small hammer and some nails. He told his son to follow him. He brought his sonContinue reading “The Boy Who was Quick to Anger”
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Repetitive Thinking and Your Mindset
By Chuck Barnard If you find yourself thinking repetitive thoughts and those thoughts are negative, meaning they have negative emotions attached to them and or negative beliefs attached to them – usually both, you are impacting your biochemistry. Holding onto negative emotions is not good for your health and certainly repetitively thinking thoughts that areContinue reading “Repetitive Thinking and Your Mindset”
SMART Goals and Your Mindset
By Charles Barnard Most professionals have been exposed to the SMART goal setting model, but according to studies only about three percent of people actually set goals and maybe one percent actually write them down. Of those who set goals research indicates that only 8% achieve them. If people are exposed to how to setContinue reading “SMART Goals and Your Mindset”
The Value of Achieving Goals or Dreams; The Value of a Growth Mindset
By Charles Barnard You try something unsuccessfully over and over and over again, but then you finally accomplish it. After that it comes easy. How valuable is that experience? How valuable is each “failure” and then that final breakthrough? Could it be… priceless? “There are some things money can’t buy, for everything else there isContinue reading “The Value of Achieving Goals or Dreams; The Value of a Growth Mindset”
Safe Spaces: A help or a hinderance?
by Charles Barnard “A culture that allows the concept of “safety” to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger is a culture that encourages people to systematically protect one another from the very experiences embedded in daily life that they need in order to become strong and healthy.” The previous quoteContinue reading “Safe Spaces: A help or a hinderance?”
Growth Mindset Training and the Training of Champions
By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes Champions are made. Champions in any endeavor have a mindset that allows them to meet all obstacles and overcome. It takes effort. It takes commitment. It takes training. The results are… priceless. DeVonta Smith said it perfectly when asked about his mindset after receiving the offensive player ofContinue reading “Growth Mindset Training and the Training of Champions”
Train your child’s mindset, train them to become a champion of life.
By Charles Barnard The heavy equipment rolled in. There was digging, blasting, more digging, and more blasting. The engineers were on site to make sure the excavation for the new bridge across the rocky ravine was progressing along and the obstacles were being removed so they could lay the firm foundation. Before building a bridge,Continue reading “Train your child’s mindset, train them to become a champion of life.”
Train your child’s growth mindset, train their faith
By Ann Lee We all know the adage winners never quit and quitters never win. Or, if at first you don’t succeed try, try, again. Or blessed is the man who perseveres. An undeniable element behind the person who takes these adages to heart and perseveres is their faith. Inevitably, you will discover that behindContinue reading “Train your child’s growth mindset, train their faith”
Give Children a Sense of Pride, Train a Growth Mindset
By Ann Lee All of you would remember them. They were the ones sitting by themselves in the cafeteria with hair covering their face, a hat or sometimes a hood pulled up over their head. They didn’t speak much and were painfully “shy”. If they weren’t bullied, they were simply the non-entity in the room.Continue reading “Give Children a Sense of Pride, Train a Growth Mindset”
